Apr 7, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
Honesty is correct relationship with the highest level of reality. God Himself is ultimate reality. Truth is sacred because departure from truth is departure from God. The issue of truth is crucial to what we believe to be true about God and life. Satan is a liar and...
Mar 31, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
I love basketball, but March Madness doesn’t usually affect me, or should I say INFECT me, all that much. I like the intensity of basketball. I especially enjoy it if one of the teams has some particular meaning to me. I served as the president of two...
Mar 24, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Culture, Leadership
Perhaps, even probably, you have never connected meekness and success. In fact, you only really need meekness when you are successful and powerful. Meekness is the virtue of the victor, not the defeated. Misunderstood by many, meekness is often thought to be only for...
Mar 21, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
Before we find victory in the last valley, we must, as David did, find the submitted faith to use the first person possessive. David did not say, the shepherd, or a shepherd, or even our shepherd. He said my shepherd. “the Lord is my shepherd” (Ps 23:1). David...
Mar 17, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Education, Leadership
“Bodies at rest remain at rest. Bodies in motion remain in motion.” Sound familiar? I am quite certain you have heard and quoted Newton’s First Law of Motion many times. Nowadays it is most often quoted in respect to exercise, which, since I am...
Mar 11, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Education, Leadership
The National Institute of Christian Leadership was carefully designed with practicality as its preeminent and presiding value. I have developed every page of the NICL material with one idea as my true north. Keep it practical. That was the foundation upon which the...